Stephen Sedley writes about the state of the law, and about the wild wood that surrounds it
Stephen Sedley, 5 May 1988
A Matter of Justice: The Legal System in Ferment
by Michael Zander.
Tauris, 323 pp., £16.50, February 1988,1 85043 040 3 Show More
by Michael Zander.
Tauris, 323 pp., £16.50, February 1988,
The Coercive State: The Decline of Democracy in Britain
by Paddy Hillyard and Janie Percy-Smith.
Fontana, 352 pp., £5.95, February 1988,0 00 637083 7 Show More
by Paddy Hillyard and Janie Percy-Smith.
Fontana, 352 pp., £5.95, February 1988,
“... Martian, for example, would not believe that Michael Zander was writing about the same society as Paddy Hillyard and Janie Percy-Smith, and at the same period of time. There is simply no space in Zander’s world-picture for the possibility that ours is a coercive state or that democracy is in decline here – while if ... ”
